Improved german erasive soap



ithtitrd' slam patent fltjifiire;

Letters Patent No. 92,651, dated July 13,1869.

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, The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and inaking part of the same.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE SANGER, of Beloit, of Rock county, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Composition and Manufacture of German Erasive Soap; and I do hereby declare the following description to be sufiicieut to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains, to make and use my said invention or improvements, without further invention or experiment.

The nature of my invention and improvements consists in the employment, composition, and manufacture of an'improved German erasive soap, composed of the ingredients hereinafter named, and manufactured substantially after the process hereinafter described, to

wit:

Put into a steam soap-kettle-six hundred and thirty pounds of tallow; add two barrels-of alkaline lye, made of soda-ash, or thelike, at ten per cent-., start steam, and continue boiling and adding the lyeonutil it is thoroughly made into soap; then add three peeks of salt dissolved in water, as strong as you can make it in the pickle, and boil the whole for one hour. This will separate the soap from teen per cent; start steam, and keep boiling and add* ing lye' until the soap is so strong that it will take no more strength; then add one and. one-half bushel of salt dissolved in water; boil for three hours; stop" steam and let stand for fifteen hours; then draw the lye, and add one barrel of water; start steam, and continue boiling and adding a few gallons of water at a time until it is well mixed; then stop steam andlet stand twelve hours; then dip the soap into tubs, and add the ingredients below named, and stir until cool,

viz:

Four hundred and twenty pounds of Sal-soda; one

hundred and twenty-five pounds of wheat flour; fifty pounds of whiting; eight pounds of ammonia; one gallon of .spirits of turpentine; twenty pounds of plaster of Paris; and twenty pounds of palmoil.

\Vhat I claim asmy invention and improvements, and desire to secure by Letters Ratent, is-'-' The soap, consisting of the above-enumerated ingredients, in about the proportions set forth, and prepared substantially in the manner herein described and specified.

GEORGE SANGER Witnesses:

' H. P. JOHNSON,

R. F. DUTTON. 

